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# מִצְנֶפֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4701

**turban** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

turban [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4701/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִצְנֶ֫פֶת²: n.f. turban [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4701/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. turban of high priest;—abs. מ׳ Ez 21:31, מִצְנָ֑פֶת Ex 28:37; 29:6; cstr. מִצְנֶ֫פֶת Lv 16:4;—turban of linen Ex 28:4, 37(×2), 39; 29:6(×2); 39:28, 31; Lv 8:9(×2); 16:4; sign of royalty Ez 21:31.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: turban (8); a turban (3); the turban (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.39/#tree)

וְשִׁבַּצְתָּ֙ הַכְּתֹ֣נֶת שֵׁ֔שׁ וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ מִצְנֶ֣פֶת שֵׁ֑שׁ וְאַבְנֵ֥ט תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה רֹקֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.weave the tunic fine.linen and you.will.make a.turban of.fine.linen and a.sash you.will.make \[the\].work of.a.worker.in.colors

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt weave the tunic in chequer work of fine linen, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work of the weaver in colours.

[Exodus 29:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.6/#tree)

וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ הַמִּצְנֶ֖פֶת עַל־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וְנָתַתָּ֛ אֶת־נֵ֥זֶר הַקֹּ֖דֶשׁ עַל־הַמִּצְנָֽפֶת׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.put the turban on head his and you.will.put (et) the.crown of.(the) holiness on the turban

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt set the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4701/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).